The Connected Business: Better Teams, Better Careers, And Better Business Through The 11 Stages Of The Human Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781734853414)

Business IS a people-driven engine. You hire people and manage people who you expect to innovate new ideas. You then send out people to market those ideas to other people who will pay for them, so that you can grow and hire more people, and make a board full of other people happy. Until you understand people, you don't understand your customers, your employees, your bosses, your board, your team dynamics, your shareholders, or in short - your business.

Your employees, customers and managers in every country, in every moment, are experiencing one of eleven distinct mindsets. Your understanding of these stages is a powerful tool in your business arsenal that lets you better understand your employees, leaders, and customers on a deeper level. In this book, Kathryn Colleen, PhD RMT details each of the eleven stages, the research behind them, and how to use them to optimize your branding, hiring, management, marketing, and sales.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Stages And What They Mean For Business

• Everyone, Worldwide, Is On The Same Path

• What You Get When You Put It All Together - The Cycle of Human Development

• Recognizing The Stages At Work

• Choosing The Right Stages For Your Business - Your Primary Stage

• Choosing The Right Stage For Your Business - Temporary And Team Specific Stages

• Using The Stages Ethically At Work

• Moving Yourself And Others To Another Stage At Work

Hiring And Firing

• Hiring The Right Stage

• Problem Employees By Stage And How To Handle Them More Effectively

• Firings And Layoffs Done Well

Management and Leadership

• Connecting To Your Team

• Connecting To Your Colleagues

• Connecting To Your Boss

• Marketing, Sales and Businesses Development

• Connecting To Your Market And Following their Evolution

• Connecting To Your Evolving Customer

Negotiation

• Personal Negotiations

• Corporate And International Negotiations

A Guide To The Stages

Further Resources

• Authors And Thought Leaders

• Questions, Answers And Additional Resources

• About The Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Amy "Kathryn Colleen" Messegee, PhD RMT is an American-born author, composer and artist better known for her foundational work: Purna Asatti, a process and practice that uses connection to self, others and every aspect of your life for managing challenges and accelerating self development.

Her summer job at 16 was doing scientific research at NASA. Before her 25th birthday she earned her Ph.D in Mathematics and was speaking to conferences on human reasoning and how to make the infinite finite. A hyper-polymath, her career has enjoyed a ride through...

• academia (as a professor of Mathematics),

• defense technology (as a Scientist, CTO, and DARPA Program Manager),

• online media (as founder of a business website and video podcast with a reach of 1.3 million),

• venture capital (advising VC firms on evaluating technologies and reading the founders for their true intent),

• private education (as founder of a local network of elite tutors and private instructors),

• and her current passion: human connection and energy work.

She has published many books, hundreds of articles and papers, dozens of unique art pieces and released multiple music albums. She is a Reiki Master Practitioner/Teacher and is travel-proficient in nine languages.